#Ideas Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Lag Quotes
“In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”
“To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.”
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
“When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.”
“There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.”
“How can we keep growing instead of staying stuck-perhaps because we are fearful of making a "wrong" decision? Herbert Otto nudges us to get out there and experiment...then we may find ourselves with many "right" choices to make.”
“You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.”
“When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.”
Christopher Hitchens Author
Mark Frauenfelder Blogger